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The Indianapolis Times

VOLUME 50—NUMBER 54

Denies War Aim ASKS W B: I. I “Not So Cool’

BUSINESSMAN AUTO VICTIM; 1 OTHERS DIE

Walter B. Harding, Civic, Club Leader, Hurt Six Days Ago.

COUNTY DEATHS NOW 45 |

Overnight Accidents Injure }

Seven Here: 16 Motorists Fined in Court.

Indiana traffic today had claimed

the lives of eight persons in the past

24 hours, including an Indianapolis business man who died here of inJuries received when struck by an auto here six days ago. The death of Walter B. Harding, 3545 Evergreen Ave, U. S. Rubber Products Co. sales manager, at Methodist Hospital last night, brought the 1938 Marion County traffic death toll to 45 as compared with 58 this time last year. Mr. Harding died of injuries received May 6 when struck by an auto driven by Warren Elzy, 25, of 1515 Samoa St., at Alabama and Wabash Sts.

Meanwhile, seven persons were in- | jured in traffic here last night and |

today as police arrested 3 on charges of speeding and seven

71 drivers, |

for carrying four passengers in the |

front seat. State Death List

Those who died in state traffic

were: Mrs. Eugene Jarrett, Station, and her daughter, Marcele, killed in a crash on Highway 27 near Winchester, Evelyn Hickman, 20, and her brother, Gerald, 14, of near Knox,

20, Stone | 16-months-old |

‘Britain Tells Nazis To Beware of War |

Killed when their auto was struck!

a train near their home. 3,

Patty Nighswander,

Warsaw, |

kiiled when struck by an automobile |

driven by Cloyce Neer, Warsaw, near her home. Irene Stockwell, 19, hurt fatally in a crash. Stanley Kowalczyk, 20, Whiting, drowned when the car in which he

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was riding sideswiped her ui . bes riding sid iped another and | prise airplane visit to Londen, had |

| saloon, cater to and employ young |

plunged into Lake George at Hammond. Mr. five in civic and club circles.

Harding, who was 66, was acHe

| lunch ! Churchill, | and remained there for three hours. |

was past president of the Chamber |

of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club and a member Athenaeum and the Associated Em- | ployers of Indianapolis. He was interested in housing and | Federal legislation to aid the program. In 1934 he was a coauthor of a Chamber of Commerce report outlining Government housing legisla- | tion with reference to the local pro- | gram.

Son Heads Kiwanis Club

Mrs. Harding died last October. He is survived by a son, the Harding Advertising Agency | and Kiwanis Club president, and a cdaughter-in-law, Mrs. Bertita Harding, writer, Funeral services are to be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary. Burial is to be | at Crown Hill. Phineas H. York, Washington St, an engineer, injured seriously today when

was his |

of the Masons, the |

Wayne, | nd opposition leaders today in an | effort to

Konrad Henlein ”

CZECH FUEHRER VISITS BRITONS

THE FOREIGN SITUATION LONDON—Henlein fears fate of Seyss-Inquart. VATICAN CITY—Pope expected to issue attack on Nazis. GENEVA—Japan warned against | using poison gas in China. SHANGHAI—Japanese claim Lunghai line will fall today. BRUSSELS — Belgian Cabinet ministers resign.

BUDAPEST —Cabinet resigns as Jewish curb passes.

HENDAYE—Spanish Rebels | bomb Barcelona and Valencia.

LONDON, May 13 (U. P.) —Konrad Henlein, leader of the Sudeten | German minority in Cezecholslova-

kia, interviewed British moderate |

{

line for his aims. Herr Henlein,

up British support |

who made a sur- |

flat of Winston Conservative, |

at the

dissident

Archibald Sinclair, Liberal op- | also was a guest. sought a compro- |

Sir position leader, Herr Henlein

the | done, but we certainly will use our influence to add weight to the ac- | tion the ministers have taken,” | Reedy said.

pect,”

FORECAST: Fair tonight and probably tomorrow;

10 JOIN WAR ON

GAMBLING, VICE

Central Sao Head Urges

Action After Speech By Attorney.

‘Howard Meyer Cites Claims Taxpayers ‘Foot Bills For Protection.’

Mrs. W. W. Reedy, Central W. C. T. U. president, this afternoon was to ask her organization ‘‘to go on record as being behind the fight on gambling in Marion County and Indiana.” The action was to follow an attack on reported gambling and vice conditions here by Howard M.

Meyer, attorney, | meeting at the Indiana World War

Memorial.

Yesterday, 11 ministers conferred

Pledges Aid to Pastors “We do not propose to deal di-

| rectly with Governor Townsend as | has |

Ministerial Association

Mrs. |

Mr. Meyer, in his address, said: “In our city and county we have | been hearing many serious and specific charges that vice and crime is and has been maintained openly, | and not only with the knowle public officials, but also ov ied ib tection furnished at the expense of | | the taxpayers,” Mr. Meyer said. “We recently have seen our rts | free alleged or suspected lawbreak- | | ers before officers charged with law enforcement could examine the sus- | Mr. Meyer continued.

Mentions Girls in Taverns

“We know, or can know if we will

| investigate, that taverns, those de- | generate successors to the old-time

women, and some of them appear to be very young for such occupa- | tions. “Over the State of Indiana, ac- | | cording to the reports, gambling is | | said to flourish. and one of |

darned by the frost,

BERGA ts

Prey

FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1938

Is Predicted For Tonight

TEMPERATURES

43 49 55

10 a. Me... 1 a m.... 12 (Noon). 1pm...

The Weather Bureau today

night and warmer for tomorrow | | after another heavy

PLEDGES PASTORS AID

| Indianapolis and most of Indiana

frost covered

| early today. Only tender vegetation could be according to Raymond Stroat, Ben Davis High School agriculturist. He said it was possible that early | plantings had toughened sufficiently | to withstand it. Prof. Stroat ex: | plained that some farmers saved | themselves losses by delaying recent |

ature.

he added. losses

frost would hurt it, However, extensive

at the W. C. T. U. |

reported from other State.

parts of the |

| tion of Vincennes and Evansville, | the Bureau said.

LOGANSPORT, May 13 (U. P).

} —Frost took a heavy toll of garden | Charles | against the bill.

MORGAN URGES CURB ON DOGS

‘Blames Suave To for Increase | In Application for | Rabies Serum.

pre- | dicted “not so cool” weather for to- |

HOUSE RAISES

planting due to the drop in temperFruit which was not damaged | earlier now \has reached a stage recovery bill went to the Senate to-

where only severe cold and killing | day carrying provisions for 100 mil-

| lion dollars more than when it enwere |

Frost was reported by every sub- | after 8 p. m. | station in the State wit hthe excep- 328 to 70, but later was corrected

| tions but will come from another

ized peas and other Kosciusko | Corp. to lend 100 million dollars to County Agent the Rural Electrification Adminis-

SPENDING BILL BY 100 MILLION

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

RECOVERY BILL goes to Senate. WALLACE urges farmers keep corn planting down. PRESIDENT blames recession on big inventories. ARMS EMBARGO repealer shelved by Senate Committee. NAVY House,

BILL sent to White

Pettengill and Halleck Vote Against Spending

WASHINGTON, May 13 (U. P.) — President Roosevelt's $3,154,425,000

tered the House. The final vote was not taken until It was announced as

| officially to 329 to 70. All the Indiana delegation was present and voting. Only two, Rep Samuel B. Pettengill (D.) and Rep. A. Halleck (R.), voted

The extra money in the bill does not involve additional appropria-

part of the general $5,041,425,000 pump priming program. An amendment adopted on the floor authorthe Reconstruction Finance

| tration, This was the nearest ap- | proach to earmarking accomplished | by the House despite Republican attempts to specify expenditures under the program. In the face of a drive by Rep. | John E. Rankin (D. Miss.) for 200 million dollars for the R. E A, leaders offered a 60 million dollar com- | promise. This was unacceptable to {| Rep. Rankin but when Rep. Clifton | A. Woodrum (D. Va.) offered the compromise amendment he succeeded lin amending it to increase the fund

not so cool tonight; warmer tomorrow.

Entered as Second-Class at Postoffice, Indianapolis,

Matter Ind.

({ to 100 million dollars. House leaders attempted to throw | the entire amendment out on a

{ roll call vote but the House upheld |

With the City Dog Pound superin- |

tendent's office vacated, Dr. Her-

| Secretary, declared today that a

[large increase in the number of

| persons treated for rabid dog bites is due largely to “the stray dog

mise solution of the Sudeten de-| | the nation's most vicious as well as | problem.”

i mands on the Czechoslovak Govern- | ment, with British support. It was reported Herr Henlein was apprehensive lest Nazi intervention |

| most lucrative rackets flourishes by | the graces of the lawmakers of the State.” The organization completed plans

in Czechoslovakia might mean he | at the meeting for the style show

Jack E, of |

{ | | |

72, of 4815 E. | Carlsbad speech setting forth the

car struck a truck at E. New York |

St. and Emerson Ave.

The York coupe caroomed from |

the 10-ton truck and trailer, rolled 20 feet and crashed a utility pole. | When it stopped the car was on its | top. wheels in the air. Roy Cole, 21, Brazil, truck driver, | was less seriously injured and both ! were taken to Methodist Hospital. Only 23 motorists appeared before

| his consultations,

Municipal Judge John L. McNelis |

today. Sixteen who were convicted were ordered to pay $61.

tional $127 was suspended.

An addi- | ; : Six | had made in Berlin were of unusu-

cases were continued and judgment |

in one was withheld.

Girl, Brother Killed

In Train-Auto Crash

LA PORTE. May 13 (U 20-year-old girl and her were dead today, scured railroad crossing over which only one passenger train traveled each day. Evelyn Hickman, 20, died in a hospital here last night from inJuries received yesterday as a speeding passenger train crashed into her car, within 500 feet of the Hickman | farm near Knox. Her brother, Ger- | ald. 14, was killed instantly.

P.).

WINCHESTER, May 13 (U.

‘A | brother |

victims of an ob- | Britain against Germany.

| ments”

| would receive treatment like that | of Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, who | headed the transition regime in Austria and was promptly shuffled ; | into the background as titular State | Governor. On the other hand, if Herr Hen- | len obtains an agreement individually without German Nazi in- | vasion, he would remain Fuehrer of Bohemia. In his three-hour talk with Mr. Churchill and Sir Archibald, Herr Henlein explained that despite his

the Germans in Czechoslovakia, he desired a solution which would not disrupt Czechoslovakia or provoke war in Europe. While Herr Henlein was holding | the Czechoslovak | Minister, Jan Masaryk, conferred at | the Foreign Office with Sir Robert | | Vansittart, permanent Undersecre- | tary of State, and Sir Alexander | | Cadogan, Deputy Undersecretary. | Coincidently it was indicated in reliable quarters that representations which the British Government !

‘demands” of

ally strong nature. Sir Neville Henderson, British Ambassador at Ber- | lin, was said to have told Foreign | Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in | almost so many words that Nab] would be unavoidable if Germany attacked Czechoslovakia and that | the chances were that any conflict would spread so as to involve Great

It is an anomaly of British government policy that while refusing | to undertake aaditional ‘“commit- | in Central Europe, and

| particularly to pledge aid to Czecho- | slovakia, the Government is arming |

P)—|

Mrs. Eugene Jarrett, 20. and her 16- |

month-old daughter, Marcele, were killed late yesterday when she drove her automobile onto Highway 27 into the path of a car driven by Charles Spangler, Ft. Wayne.

The accident occurred five miles |

orth of her . hor ©: Dore, Mr. Spangler and —Two thousand weary searchers

Ronald Jarrett, 4, also were hurt.

WARSAW, May 13.—Patty Nighs-

| |

wander, 3-year-old daughter of Mrs. | Miidred Nighswander, was killed in- |

stantly yesterday when struck bv a

| last Sunday.

truck driven by Cloyce Neer, War- |

saw, cident as she watched the child run across the street to buy penny candy. >

FT. WAYNE, May 13.—Miss Irene | Stockwell, 19, daugher of Mr. and | Mrs. Leland Stockwell,

in which two others were hurt.

HAMMOND, May 13 Stanley Kowalczyk, 20, was drowned and his companion, Stanley Smigle, 22, Hammond, received severe head cuts late vester-

died yester- | les f h day of injuries received in a crash | miles from here.

Her mother witnessed the ac- |

| body,

| shoulder”

at urgent pace because it is con- | vinced that any war which involved | | Czechoslovakia — and therefore (Turn to Page Three) |

[in his mouth. | the mother revealed two other pen- | nies missing from the bank, which e had pulled down from a shelf. |

plane on a | Los Angeles to Warsaw, 9:14 a. non-stop hop to Mexico City,

and musical tea to be given June 10 | at the Ayres auditorium. Mrs. W. Reedy presided.

‘PENNY TAKEN FROM BABY'S ESOPHAGUS

Sixteen-month-old Thomas E. Black Jr. was recovering at his home today after removal of a penny fro mhis esophagus, where it had lodged after he had swallowed it during a “raid” on his small sister's coin bank. Rushed to Methodist last night by his parents, Mrs. Thomas E. Black Sr, Powell Place, X-ray examination showed the penny in the esophagus (and another in the child's stomach.

Mrs. son making choking noises, one penny in his hand and another A quick count by

Hospital Mr. and

"POLISH FLIERS BEGIN U. S.-TO-WARSAW TRIP.

LOS ANGELES, Mav 13 —Five Polish airmen, flying a new “good will” flight from took off at foday on a firsv |

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leg of their journey,

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 13 {P.). — The German trans-Atlantic | | plane Nordwind of the Condor Line | | claimed a new commercial world speed record today crossing the

{ South Atlantic from Bathurst to

Natal in 11 hours and 11 minutes.

Forest Scoured for Girl; Report Levine Boy Seen

BRADFORD, Pa. May 13 (U. P.).|

moved today in a long ‘“shoulder-to-line through Allegheny National Forest in a final hunt for Marjory West, 4, who disappeared

Pennsylvania motor police who directed the line believed that if it did not find Marjory, or the child's it would indicate she was kidnaped. All efforts of the 2000 men and | boys were directed in the white gravel area of the dense forest, 13 |

Hope of finding the girl alive

Bloodhounds lent by the New| York State Troopers at Hawthorne, | N. Y., were returned late yesterday |

land a boy stood beside the car. | faded after temperatures dropped to other man was changing a tire. (U. p.).» near-freezing for the second conWhiting, | secutive night.

JOPLIN, Mo., May 13 The Rev. Homer C. Murphey of | Haines City, Fla., said today he was “certain” that a boy who was forced into an automobile near Rich Hill, Mo., Wednesday night was Peter Levine, kidnaped New Rochelle, N. Y., youth.

Sheriff C. S. Wattenbarger of |

Lamar hotified the FBI at Kansas City. The Rev. Mr. Murphey said that while en route here Wednesday night he stopped behind an automobile stalled on the road. A man An- |

“The boy, who wore a brown coat, overalls and a cap, ran up to my | car, seeking admittance. He appeared to be in distress,” the Rev. Mr. Murphey said. “As the boy

day when the automobile in which | after failing, for the first time, ac- | opened the car door one of the men they were riding sideswiped a car cording to their handlers, to track | grabbed him, pulled his cap down

driven by Nela Neal, and plunged into. Lake

vied

47, Munster, [a human. They could not pick up a | over his face and shoved him into George. the car,”

533 |

Black said she found her | with

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He said the number applying at | the City Hospital's has been “very heavy” during the Jian four or six weeks. “The City may well expect to be | | confronted with this problem until

| 1939. man G. Morgan, City Health Byard |

REA

Pasteur clinic |

it, 259 to 139. The R. E. A, already | has been voted 40 million dollars for |

Reps. Ludlow,

tengill (D. Ind.) voted against the

increase and Rep. Halleck | voted for it. Republican attempts to alter the { philosophy of the bill in three im- | portant particulars were vigorously | | rejected. An amendment by Rep. Robert L.| Bacon (R. N. Y.) to return relief ad- |

| Boehne and "| | |

Such a Moon!

Last Month It Had Apogee, and Now It’s Got Penumbra!

HE moon, which last month had apogee and perigee trouble, early tomorrow (almost too early) will go into penumbra, which is considered critical. The unscientific name penumbra is eclipse, and the eclipse will be most marked in Indianapolis tomorrow morning at 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 4 and 4:30. The eclipse will be total from 2:18 to 3:00. That will occur when the moon slips behind the earth out of the rays of the sun and the black part will be the shadow of the earth on it. The Weather Bureau predicted fair weather for tonight. Sort of a looney season, it?

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FINAL HOME

PRICE THREE CENTS

FARLEY GROOMS

PRESIDENCY; ‘GARNER GAINING

NATIONAL POLITICS

FARLEY looms as candidate for President. HUGHES-WALLACE feud creates political issue. CHIEF JUSTICE'’S speech recalls Black attack. G. 0. P. to draft policy by questionnaire method,

BARKLEY seeks New Deal issue in Kentucky (Page 25).

By THOMAS L. STOKES

day, Friday the 13th. P. W. A. in this case, is Phillip Wayne Antrobus, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Antrobus, 1014 E. Raymond St. Mr. Antrobus said it was purely coincidence that his son's initials are the same as those of the Public Works Administration. ” ” n OPKINSVILLE, Ky. May 13 (U. P.).—George Waters, City Workhouse prisoner, is proving a headache to his keepers. Wednesday he pushed a wheelbarrow to which he was chained into the side of an automobile while working with a street crew. When taken to a doctor's office he pretended paralysis. After an X-ray examination showed nothing wrong he broke every bottle in sight in the dector’'s office. Police offered him his freedom but he demanded two “puppy dogs” that had been with him when he was arrested for drunkenness. He refused to leave when told the dogs had been given away. Locked in a separate cell, he started a fire with his garments and bedclothing and almost suffocated. Then he said he would drown himself and lay down in a pool of water made when the blaze was extinguished. Workhouse officials him lo the he wall today.

M'KINNEY TO ASK GRAND JURY ACTION

chained

‘Treasurer Says "Save Detoctives

Are Seeking Missing Man.

County Treasurer Frank E. Mec-

| ministration to states with the Fed- | Kinney today declared he will re-

| for every 25 cents provided by the | he

{the method of clearing the City of |

stray dogs is carried out in a very thorough manner,” he said. Dr. Elizabeth Conger, dog pound | superintendent for 18 years, said she |

[hse : ‘walked out” and does not in- |

nd to return. ea Women's Club | night commended Dr. Conger | resolution. (Story Page 15).

" Bite Fatal to Child

| Theo Dammeyer, Safety | president, said no one

| named to succeed her.

last | in al

Board

Chief Mor-

The Business and| Bacon to prevent spending money

would be |

| rissey recently was given charge of |

{| the pound. Dr. “walked out” after the Chief exe- | cuted several dogs last Sunday.

| dianapolis Humane Society might | be given charge of the pound. The number of persons bitten by strays increases each Morgan said, but this year has seen an unusually large increase. | Declaring the problem “has baf- | | fled administrations for two dec- | ades, ” Dr. Morgan said: “Until only licensed and vacei- | | nated dogs are left on the streets, | the Pasteur clinic will find it neces- | | sary to continue the administration | of serum to innocent children as well as to adults.” | Recalling that one child died recently as a result of bites from a rabid dog, Dr. Morgan declared that

“that one child's life is worth more | ever |

[than all the stray dogs that {roamed any streets. I love dogs myself, but sentiment must not be | allowed to stand in the way of publie health.” He said maintenance of the free

Pasteur clinic costs the City $15,000 | | Friday,

led a happy life.

or $20,000 annually. Of this, about $10,000 in spent for serum.

Dr. Morgan emphasized that “the |

of rabies.”

EXPERTS TO DECIDE

(Photos, Page 22) CHICAGO, May 13 (U.

{cide Thursday what is to be done with Baby Helaine Judith Colan’s right eye, it was said today at Gar- | field Park Community Hospital,

was removed Monday. Dr. E. V. L. Brown, eye specialist who has been making a miscroscopic study of the cancerous left eye, will | submit his report to eight radiologists. They will decide whether | sight of the right eye can be saved ! {by X-ray treatments,

It has been rumored that the In- |

Conger said she |

(day that Hugh Gibson,

| Belgium, spring, Dr. | 8

| ambassador

i | |

stray dog problem, when solved, will | day. March 13. 1914.

immediately reduce the prevalency |

ON BABY’S RIGHT EYE |

| clever with figures you can see Shaky |31 reversed is 13.)

P.)—A | attended by 13, the couple will leave council of medical experts will de- on a honeymoon trip.

where the infant's sightless left eye | O'Donnell and Mr.

| usual in this,”

|in our lives. | the 13th.”

{ If the malignant growth—retinal |

glimoa—has spread to the right eve |, 0

land destroyed its sight-giving tis-

| sues, that eye, too, would have to be |

| removed, doctors said.

BABY FILM IS BANNED CINCINNATI, O., May 13 (U. P). —"The Birth of a Baby,” controyersia, motion picture, was banned n Cincinnati by City Manager C. O.

eral Government putting up 75 cents |

states was rejected 106 to 39. ! Reps. Ludlow, Griswold, Petten- | gill, Boehne and Halleck of the In- | diana delegation voted for the the Bacon amendment. Another amendment by Rep. | for public works projects competing with private business was defeated vy a voice vote. The House similarly shouted down an amendment by (Turn to Page Four)

HUGH GIBSON QUITS DIPLOMATIC SERVICE

WASHINGTON, May 13 (U. P). —President Roosevelt revealed toveteran U. S. diplomat and retiring minister to has resigned. Gibson is being replaced ot Brussells by Joseph Davies, former to Soviet Russia. Mr. nomination to the Brussels the Senate this

Mr.

Davies’ | post was sent to week:

quest Grand Jury action on what termed the mishandling of $20,400 in funds by a missing employee of the Treasurer's office. The case was disclosed yesterday

by William P. Cosgrove, chief ex- |

aminer of the State Board of Accounts, who said Mr. McKinney had requested him to make the investigation. Mr. McKinney today confirmed Mr. Cosgrove's statement that he personally had made good the missing funds with a certified check after disappearance of an assistant cashier. He said the missing man had been bonded to him and not to the County or State. The County Treasurer said he would make a formal claim against the bonding company, which employed the Pinkerton Detective Agency to search for the man. Police said the man's wife had re-

quested a search for nim as a miss- |

ing person. Mr. McKinney said he would talk with Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer. The Prosecutor promised action as soon as the matter was brought to his attention.

May —Other aspirants for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1940 are suddenly going to find lots of dust thrown in their eyes, if they don't | watch out, by the stream-lined bandwagon of James A, Farley. | The Postmaster General and Democratic chairman is actively on the search for 1940 delegates, cording to reports sifting in here from local politicians along ‘the oratorical trail which Mr. Farley has blazed about the country in recent months.

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON,

national ace

As Postmaster General, he is to speak at the dedication of the new Federal Building ‘wing in Indianapolis on May 121.

OFFICIALS SEEK | CAUSE OF BLAZE | LE

| | moted by friends, if not by the Vice |

'Two Firemen Hurt: Three | President himself—are the chief [topics in Capitol lobbies these days Injured in Home when the conversation turns to 1940, : The candidacies are in no way Accidents. linked, for Mr. Farley will come S——————— | forward under a 100 per cent New | Deal banner, while the Vice Presi- | t { blaze | dent, recently a critic of certain a orisit fo os story | New Deal trends, would be the front | building at 22d and Yandes Sts, [man for the party's conservative | last night, injuring two firemen and | Wing. largely entrenched in the | cousing damage estimated at $2000 South. . : by the owners. Mr. Farley himself is not over Meanwhile, kitchen accidents at |l00King the South. He is said to

two homes resulted in critical in- | have let fall some hints during his | jury to a child and minor burns to | recent swing into South Carolina

her mother from scalding, and (and Georgia as he dashed about

| severe burns to another child when | making speeches for the New Deal, A gas stove exploded. | shaking - hands, calling politicians

Fire Department officials today

Fire Lieut. James Pope, 33, of 25 | by their first names, and dedicating N. Wallace St., and Fireman Clyde by postoffice or two. | Henninger, 55, of 1466 Drexel Ave. ee both as Co. 22, were burned | Knows’ Politicians in the 22d St. fire when flames shot | The Postmaster General has a from the building shortly after they | technique that is the envy of other | entered. 1940 hopefuls, The building leased by the | They shudder a bit as they recall Peoples’ Motor Coach Co., has been | how he hustled quietly about the vacant since the traction company’s | country in 1931 and '32 talking to | new quarters were completed. It | Democratic politicians, and-—presto [is owned by the Twenty-Second | —turned up at the Chicago cone | Street Realty Co. vention with Mr. Roosevelt's nomie« Seven companies fought the blaze | nation virtually sewed up. for almost three hours. Special] Jim Farley knows more Demopolice squads were dispatched to| cratic politicians than anybody else { regulate traffic, the fire drawing a |in the country. He has kept up his crowd of several hundred spectators. | contacts. What is more important, Lieut. Pope, although burned on! they all owe him something. The both wrists, and Fireman Henninger, | political machine he has built up {on the forehead and ankles. did not | under the magic of the Roosevelt leave the scene until after the fire | name is perhaps the best this coun had been brought under control. try has ever seen. It still bows when They then drove to City Hospital | Mr. Farley nods, where they were treated for first- This gives him a tremendous start degree burns. over rival candidates, Cecelia Dushey, 20 months old, Roosevelt Still Riddle of 1056 N. Mount St., was criticaily scalded over her entire body when | But what about President Roose« her mother, Mrs. Rena Dushey, velt? dropped a pail of boiling water she He has never advised his national had removed from the kitchen stove. | chairman, it is said on the best au thority, what his 1940 intentions are,

Durina Steenberger, 6, of 220 S State St. sent by her father to| Mr, Farley is loyal to the Presi= dent. He praises the New Deal

turn down the burners on the wherever he goes, and he has prob-

kitchen stove, was burned on the face when an explosion shattered | ably set a new record for speeches by a Cabinet member. He undoubt=-

the stove door and broke windows in the kitchen. {edly has an intuition that the Pres- | Asa Steenberger, the father, told | ident will not seek the nomination | police he was on the porch and Mrs. | in 1940. Anyhow, he is getting ready Steenberger in the dining room | for that eventuality. when the explosion occurred. Among Administration insiders The child was hurled into the | Mr, Roosevelt's choice of a successor dining room. | has been reported to lie elsewhere. | Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson

Bridal Pair, Both Born on Friday 13th, Scorn Jinx—LEven Invite 13 to Wedding

By JOE COLLIER Friday the 13th, successor to the Ides of March as bad boy of the | calendar, sneaked into town today and found this stiuation!

Miss Beatrice O'Donnell was born | |

April 13, 1917. She has |

Kermit P. Shelton was born Fri- | He says he never has noticed any inconvenience because of it.

Tonight, Friday, May 13, Miss |

O'Donnell and Mr. Shelton will ee :

| married at 8:30 o'clock in the 31st

Street Baptist Church. (If you're |

After the wedding party, to be

But, Miss O'Donnell said, they will leave before midnight * ‘to be sure it's still the 13th.” When they were interviewed, Miss Shelton were sitting under a stepladder (also supposed to be for no good) and had their fingers crossed (which in sign language means king's X). “I don't see anything so unMiss O'Donnell said. “Friday the 13th is the luckiest day We met on a Friday |

Two black cats showed up around BR corner of the house and | marched in front of the pair like | pickets sent from the half-world of superstition by the head banshee there. “I'm not afraid of being married on Friday the 13th,” Miss O'Donnell continued, as if she had seen no black cats. “But I've always been afraid of putting hats on beds—that really brings bad luck.” :

Mr. Shelton and Miss O'Donnell cross their fingers.

She knocked on wood. “Our friends,” she continued, “hope we'll have 13 children—but we don't.” Mr. Shelton had nothing to say. However, while Nd picture was be-

has been indicated as a favorite, and Secretary of Agrictulture Wallace and Governor Murphy of Michigan also are reported to be among the select White House circle. Talk of the Presidential aspirae | tions of Paul V. McNutt, of Indiana, | High Commissioner to the Philip« | pines, has died down here for the | moment. Recent activities of Senator Minton, Mr. McNutt's most vocal suporter here, apparently have not helped his White House aspira« tions. Informal entry of Mr. name as a rndidate for Governor, an excellent stepping stone to the Presidency, brought the cold shoulder from regular New York Democratic leaders, but it is reported that he still may be trotted out as the Administration candie date for the post. Around the Roosevelt-Farley situe (Turn to Page Three)

GEM BANDIT GETS $1200 CHICAGO, May 13 (U. P.).—A “strong arm” bandit today slugged Abe Landau, New York jewelry salesman, and escaped with a sample case containing $1200 worth of ring mountings. The robbery occurred in daylight on a loop street.

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